Annual Women in Church and Ministry Lecture Focuses on an Emerging Latina Evangelica Theology

—Elizabeth
Conde-Frazier, vice president of education and dean of Esperanza College of
Eastern University, to deliver lecture February 27—

Princeton,
NJ, February 11, 2014–The Reverend Dr. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier,
vice president of education and dean of Esperanza College of Eastern University,
will give the annual Women in Church and Ministry Lecture at Princeton Theological
Seminary on Thursday, February 27, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. in the Daniel J. Theron
Assembly Room in the Princeton Theological Seminary Library, at the corner of
Mercer Street and Library Place in Princeton. Her lecture is titled “A
Continuum of Voices, Thoughts on an Emerging Latina Evangelica Theology.”

Conde-Frazier is responsible
for setting the vision, the strategic direction, and providing leadership for
the programs and faculty at Esperanza College, which provides members of the
Hispanic and local communities with a “Christian faith-based education that is
affordable and culturally appropriate so that they can continue their
contributions to and leadership in their communities and become more effective.”

Prior to her appointment at
Esperanza, Conde-Frazier served as professor of religious education at the
Claremont School of Theology and taught Hispanic/Latino/a theology at the Latin
American Bible Institute, in California. She earned a Ph.D. from Boston College,
a M.Div. from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a B.A. from Brooklyn College,
City University of New York, and is the founder of the Orlando E. Costas
Hispanic and Latin American Ministries Program at Andover Newton Theological
School, where she also developed programs for the development of ministers and
lay leaders including youth. She has more than ten years experience as an
ordained pastor and has been a bilingual teacher.

Conde-Frazier is the
coauthor of Latina Evangélicas (Wipf
and Stock Publishers, 2013), and wrote Listen
to the Children: Conversations with Immigrant Families (bilingual, Judson
Press, 2011). For
more information, contact the Communications/Publications Office at 609.497.7760.

Princeton Theological
Seminary, founded in 1812, is the first seminary established by the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Its mission is to educate leaders for the
church of Jesus Christ worldwide, and its more than 500 students and 11,000
graduates from all fifty states and many nations around the world serve Christ
in churches, schools and universities, healthcare institutions, nonprofit
agencies, initiatives for social justice, mission agencies, and the emerging
ministries of the church in the twenty-first century.